enp1s0 is my wan interface. I do not want to introduce a point of attack. I
do have a firewall in place. Why is NM listening at all? It just needs to
ask the dhcp server for an address.

-Thanks

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:46 AM Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 10:53 -0400, Louis Garcia via networkmanager-list
> wrote:
> > Just upgraded to NM 1.20 and notice NM is listening on port 68.
> >
> > $ ss -tulpn
> > udp      UNCONN    0         0                          0.0.0.0:67
> >            0.0.0.0:*       users: "dhcpd",pid=608,fd=11))
> > udp      UNCONN    0         0            165.270.73.136%enp1s0:68
> >            0.0.0.0:*       users:(("NetworkManager",pid=490,fd=20))
> >
> > enp1s0 is set to automatic (DHCP) addresses only. NM 1.18 had the
> > same setup and did not show up on netstat. Is this new?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> This is DHCP.
>
> If you use main.dhcp=dhclient, then DHCP will be done by a different
> process, and NM won't listen this socket. Maybe you had that in 1.18?
>
> Also, AFAIK dhclient doesn't use a UDP socket, instead it always uses a
> raw socket. NetworkManager's DHCP library (which is taken from systemd-
> networkd) uses a UDP socket when possible.
>
>
> best,
> Thomas
>
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